Employment, the small firm and the labour market:
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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 334 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0415100356 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables ix
Notes on contributors xiv
Preface xv
1 Small firms and employment 1
John Atkinson and David Storey
2 Running to stand still: the small firm in the labour market 28
John Atkinson and Nigel Meager
3 Employers work force construction policies in the small
service sector enterprise 103
John Kitching
4 Labour market support and guidance for the small business 147
John Atkinson
5 Labour intensive practices in the ethnic minority firm 172
Trevor Jones, David McEvoy and Giles Barrett
6 Employment and labour process changes in manufacturing
SMEs during the 1980s 206
David North, David Smallbone and Roger Leigh
7 Employment in small firms: are cooperatives different?
Evidence from southern Europe 256
Will Bartlett
8 Generating enterprise and employment in disadvantaged
urban areas 288
Alan McGregor and Ruth Fletcher
vi Contents
9 The characteristics of the self employed: the supply of labour 317
Hedley Rees and Anup Shah
Index 328
Figures
2.1 Characteristics of firm 35
2.2 Environmental characteristics 37
2.3 Recruitment activity in past year by size (n=2,983) 40
2.4 Firms experiencing recruitment difficulty (recruiters only) 41
2.5 Recruitment and incidence of labour problems by size 42
2.6 Serious recruitment difficulties by size ALBSU survey
data (n= 12,000) 45
2.7 Incidence of shortfalls in experience by size 46
2.8 Incidence of shortfalls in skill/qualifications by size 47
2.9 Shortfalls in number of applicants by size 48
2.10 Type of problems perceived as very important by size
(n=2,983) 50
2.11 Managerial structure by firm size 63
2.12 Dynamics of recruitment in the small business 76
2.13 Necessity for changes to employees tasks and ability to
secure it 82
2.14 Training methods and skill acquisition in large and small
businesses 87
4.1 Environmental characteristics 150
4.2 Use of external agencies for advice and support with
employment issues 157
4.3 Use of public employment agencies by size 162
4.4 Use of public sector and public agencies 162
4.5 Use of existing professional services 163
4.6 Use of private commercial agencies by size 164
4.7 Use of formal business networks by size 164
4.8 Use of informal business networks by size 165
6.1 A summary of employment change in the panel of
London SMEs over the 1979 90 period 213
viii Figures
9.1 Comparable hours and wages of employed and self
employed 323
9.2 The year dummies 325
Tables
1.1 Net job generation in the UK 1985 9 5
2.1 Who decides on overall employment levels in the
organization (six labour markets, all sectors) 52
2.2 Who decides on overall employment levels in the
organization by labour market (all sectors) 53
2.3 Employment decision making by size of firm and labour
market (all sectors) 53
2.4 Employment decision making by sector (six labour markets) 54
2.5 Factors regarded as very important in deciding on
employment levels (six labour markets, all sectors) 55
2.6 Factors influencing employment decision by size of firm (six
labour markets, all sectors) 57
2.7 Factors very important in employment decision by size of
firm (six labour markets, all sectors) 58
2.8 Managerial division of labour by firm size (whole sample) 61
2.9 Managerial division of labour by labour market area (whole
sample) 65
2.10 Multiple regression estimates (dependent variable: number
of distinct managerial posts) 67
2.11 Recruitment methods: managers and professional staff (six
labour markets, all sectors) 70
2.12 Recruitment methods: technical, craftsmen, skilled, etc. (six
labour markets, all sectors) 71
2.13 Recruitment methods: clerical, admin., secretarial, sales, etc.
(six labour markets, all sectors) 72
2.14 Recruitment methods: semi and unskilled manual staff (six
labour markets, all sectors) 73
2.15 Incidence of recruitment difficulties by concentration of
recruitment (six labour markets, all sectors) 74
x Tables
2.16 Recruitment distance by occupation and firm size (six
labour markets, all sectors) 75
2.17 Sources of competition for labour (six labour markets, all
sectors) 76
2.18 Sources of competition for labour by firm size (six labour
markets, all sectors) 78
2.19 Use of selection methods, by business size 79
2.20 Factors influencing provision of training 84
2.21 Factors constraining provision of training 88
2.22 Logit estimates, Model 1 (dependent variable: whether
experienced recruitment difficulties in last year) 91
2.23 Logit estimates, Model 2 (dependent variable: whether
experienced recruitment difficulties in last year) 93
2.24 Logit estimates, Model 3 (dependent variable: recruitment
of adequate number of staff currently an important/very
important problem) 95
2.25 Logit estimates, Model 4 (dependent variable: recruitment
of adequate quality of staff currently an important/very
important problem) 96
3.1 Sample firms by sector and locality 109
3.2 Employers selection criteria 110
3.3 Employers selection criteria (grouped data) 114
3.4 Employers selection criteria by sector (per cent) 116
3.5 Size of firm by sector (per cent) 122
3.6 Aggregate work force composition of sample firms 124
3.7 Employment mix by sector (per cent) 125
3.8 Employers use of part time workers by sector 125
3.9 Part time workers as a proportion of total work force (per
cent) 126
3.10 Employers reasons for using part time workers 127
3.11 Employers reported use of self employed and freelance
workers by sector (per cent) 130
3.12 Proportion of employers who ever use temporary workers
by sector (per cent) 132
3.13 Employers reasons for using temporary workers (per cent) 133
3.14 Gender distribution of aggregate employment by sector (per
cent) 136
3.15 Owner mangers reported gender preferences by sector 137
4.1 Use of external advice sources for employment issues, by
firm size 154
4.2 Use of external advice sources for employment issues, by
age of firm 155
Tables xi
4.3 Use of external advice sources by incidence of
employment problems (six labour markets, all sectors) 155
4.4 Sources of employment assistance/advice by age of firm
(six labour markets, all sectors) 166
4.5 Index of usefulness 168
5.1 The selected study areas 175
5.2 Owners weekly hours by origin 180
5.3 Short versus long hours: Asian owners 183
5.4 Working and opening hours of Asian and white retailers 184
5.5 Concentration of Asian firms in food retailing and CTN 186
5.6a Asian owners weekly hours and satisfaction with returns 189
5.6b White owners weekly hours and satisfaction with returns 189
5.7a Employment size classes: percentage of firms with
full time employees 196
5.7b Employment size classes: percentage of firms with
full time employees by business activity 196
5.8 Employees and satisfaction with returns: Asian firms 197
5.9 Recruitment and family/co ethnic employees 199
5.10 Firms using formal recruitment procedures (per cent in
each size category) 200
6.1 Sectoral distribution of the London, OMA and rural
panels 211
6.2 Employment loss resulting from non survival in the
London panel 214
6.3 Employment change 1979 90 in surviving firms by sector
for combined panel 216
6.4 Employment change by age of firm for the combined
panel 217
6.5 Employment change 1979 90 by sector for the SMEs in
the three panels 218
6.6 Movement of firms between employment size groups
1979 90 for combined panel 219
6.7 Employment change 1979 90 by size of firm in 1979 219
6.8 Share of job gains/losses taken by firms making the
largest changes in each sector for the combined panel 221
6.9 Employment change 1979 90 by growth performance
groups for the combined panel 222
6.10 Change in the proportion of manual (direct production)
workers in the work force 1979 90 by sector in the
London panel 225
6.11 Change in the proportion of women in the work force
1979 90 by sector in the London panel 226
xii Tables
6.12 Change in the proportion of part time employees in the
work force 1979 90 by sector for the London panel 227
6.13 Change in the proportion of skilled production workers in
the work force 1979 90 by sector for the London panel 233
6.14 Level of job demarcation and labour flexibility in 1990
by sector for the combined panel 236
6.15 Reasons for externalizing production given by the SMEs
which engaged in subcontracting in 1990 240
6.16 The growth performance 1979 90 of firms increasing
their labour flexibility 248
7.1 Cooperatives in Emilia Romagna 1989 261
7.2 Size distribution of all industrial firms and cooperatives
in Emilia Romagna (per cent) 262
7.3 Size distribution of cooperatives in Catalonia 263
7.4 Comparisons of means: Italy 272
7.5 Comparisons of means: Spain 272
7.6 Regression results for Italy 275
7.7 Regression results for Spain . 277
7.8 Differences in training activity 279
7.9 Linkages to local markets 280
8.1 New or existing firms in workspaces 296
8.2 Previous location of firms trading before moving into
workspaces 297
8.3 Industrial classification of community enterprises and
workspace tenants 298
8.4 Characteristics of owners of workspace firms 299
8.5 Characteristics of employees of workspace tenants and
community enterprises 302
8.6 Residence and previous employment status of employees 303
8.7 Local recruitment by gender 304
8.8 Local recruitment by occupation 305
8.9 Previous employment status by occupation 305
8.10 Local recruitment by new start/relocation 306
8.11 Local recruitment by year of arrival in workspace 307
8.12 Local recruitment by residence of owners 307
8.13 Local recruitment by previous status of owners 308
8.14 Previous employment status of employee by previous
status of owner 309
8.15 Local recruitment by workspace ownership 311
8.16 Financial inputs to community enterprises and
workspaces 1982 9 (1989 prices, £000s) 311
8.17 Job creation impacts: employment levels at interview 311
Tables xiii
8.18 Public sector costs per job (1989 prices) 312
8.19 Anticipated break even dates 313
9.1 Age grouping by year 320
9.2 Variable definitions and means 321
9.3 Labour supply equations 322
9.4 Change in work supply 324
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